Locations of events.

When the American deck-hand Gale, while on shore leave in Antwerp, misses the departure of his freighter, he does not know what catastrophic events he has just set in motion: the extinction of his existence …

It’s the most sought-after metal in the world: In the Middle Ages, alchemists tried to produce it from scratch in vain, in the Early Modern world people persistently searched for it in rivers and mountains. A novel about the power of gold.

We tend to believe we’re constantly reinventing the wheel. We’re not. Take any contemporary trend, from “tiny houses” to “minimalism” to “tidying up with Marie Kondo” – Henry David Thoreau was already living them 200 years ago.

What do you associate with the word “pirate”? Far-away treasure islands, buried treasure chests, peg legs, and parrots on the shoulder? That is thanks to the Scottish author R. L. Stevenson, who with his novel created the mother of all pirate stories.

One fateful night Viktor Frankenstein creates his monster – that much most of us know. But who created Frankenstein, the book that is, and why?